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 PLATE CLXXXIX. 



PHAL^NA MENTHRASTRI. 



Spotted White Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general defle&ed when at 

 *reft. Fly by night. 



Rsmbyx. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



White with black fpots ; abdomen orange, with black fpoti. 



PhaLjENA Menthrastri: alls deflexis albis nigro fubpun£latis, 

 abdominis dorfo fulvo nigro pun&ato, femoribus 

 anticig luteis. Tab. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 1. 452. 140. 



Bombyx Menthraftri. Wien. Verz 54. 2. — Roef. Inf. 1 Thai. 2. /. 46. 

 Knock. Reytr. 8. tab. 2. fig. 5. IS. 



This InfecT: has been confounded with Falzena lubricipeda by 

 Linnaeus ; he makes it the variety /3 after De Geer. In this he haa 

 been followed by many other authors ; and though Roefel, by giving 

 the larva and Pupa of each, in two diflmft plates, evidently thought 

 them different fpecies, his obfervations had no weight with other 

 Naturaiifb; even Fabricius, in his Species Infeclsrum, gives them 



under 



